The endocrinology test is rapidly approaching, and I’m starting to get a little light-headed from the amount of information I’m trying to shovel into my brain. Or maybe that’s just hypoglycemia from my insulin-secreting tumor. Or maybe it’s a headache from the hypertension secondary to my Conn’s Disease. (Or, maybe it’s just my med student [...]
Entries from February 18th, 2009
Diabeetus, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Endocrinology
February 18th, 2009 3 Comments
Tags: diabeetus · diabetes · endocrinology · zombie wilfred brimley
Med Student Syndrome
February 15th, 2009 2 Comments
Last night I woke up around three in the morning. I was sweating, my heart was beating super fast, and my blood pressure was so high that it felt like blood might shoot out of my eyes at any second.
Since we’re in the middle of the endocrine unit at school, my first reaction was that [...]
Tags: hyperchondria · med student syndrome · pheochromocytoma · why I am awesome at clinical correlation questions on tests
On Genitals… part 1
February 13th, 2009 3 Comments
Since the day I got my acceptance to medical school, I had been dreading one thing. Every time I thought about it, I felt my anxiety level bubble up like a two-liter of diet coke with a pack of mentos dropped in it. It wasn’t the thought of cutting up a dead body. [...]
Tags: anxiety · digital rectal exam · genitourinary exam · ICM · pelvic exam
